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National Comorbidity Survey
[electronic resource]Adolescent Supplement (NCS-A), 2001-2004
Ronald C. Kessler
2013-08-28Ann Arbor, Mich.Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor]2011ICPSR28581NumericTitle from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2015-08-02.AVAILABLE. This study is freely available to the general public.Also available as downloadable files.

The National Comorbidity Survey Replication Adolescent Supplement (NCS-A) was designed to estimate the lifetime-to-date and current prevalence, age-of-onset distributions, course, and comorbidity of DSM-IV disorders in the child and adolescent years of life among adolescents in the United States; to identify risk and protective factors for the onset and persistence of these disorders; to describe patterns and correlates of service use for these disorders; and to lay the groundwork for subsequent follow-up studies that can be used to identify early expressions of adult mental disorders.

In addition to interviewing adolescents, information was collected from a parent or a parent surrogate to obtain an additional perspective on the adolescent's mental health and its correlates. Information from parents focused on the five adolescent disorders for which previous methodological research has most consistently shown that parental reports are important for making diagnoses: attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, conduct disorder, oppositional defiant disorder, major depressive episode, and dysthymic disorder.

The study contains four data files: (1) data for the adolescent
household and school respondents; (2) data for the parents who
responded to the long self-administered questionnaire; (3) data for the
parents who responded to both the long self-administered questionnaire
and the short telephone interview; and (4) diagnostic variables based on
information collected from both adolescents and parents.

Demographic information includes age, citizenship status, country of birth, criminal history, ethnicity, grandparents' country of birth, language(s) spoken in the home, parents' country of birth, race, religion, and sex.